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- Nov 07, 2020
Grown Men Quotes
Grown men at play, in power, and finding their voice
This collection of grown men quotes ranges from a young player earning a spot in pickup basketball games to broader thoughts on empowering athletes. See our Brotherhood quotes for related lines.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- Easy
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- Nov 07, 2020
To me, I'll always be the skinny, 5-foot-6 eighth-grader on the YMCA court, trying to get grown men to choose me for pickup games. It wasn't always easy. And that's what drives me.
- Bedroom
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- Nov 07, 2020
In the suburban Midwestern Reform Jewish world I was raised in, in the nineteen-seventies and eighties, grown men built plastic scale models of Israeli tanks and F-15 jets and displayed them throughout the house, dangling the warplanes from bedroom ceilings with fishing line.
- Joke
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've made a lot of grown men cry with laughter, because I really am quite the joke.
- Game
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- Nov 07, 2020
If at my funeral they're talking about my boxing stories, I'd be disappointed because this is just a springboard for when I'm finished. It's just a game. It's pretty silly when you think about it: two grown men punching each other in the face and taking it seriously.
- Hope
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- Nov 07, 2020
By empowering players - not just players, but grown men - to think for themselves outside of the game, you hope that they will be more likely to adapt to a situation and seize the moment in a sporting contest.
- Government
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was ecstatic they re-named 'French Fries' as 'Freedom Fries'. Grown men and women in positions of power in the U.S. government showing themselves as idiots.
- Football
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- Nov 07, 2020
Football, at the end of the day, is a little kids' game that grown men get to play. I'm just privileged to get to do that every day.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020